ABSTRACT
Rabindranath Tagore, though opposed on principle to war as inhuman, at first took up that position him self with regard to the invasion of Belgium, considering it a grave injustice. He told me at the very time how he had Belgium in his mind when he wrote his celebrated poem, called The Boatman, wherein he pictures a lonely, desolate woman sitting in solitude beside her vanished home. Mahatma Gandhi also believed in the justice of the Allied cause, and offered again and again for active service as the organizer of an ambulance corps. He sustained this belief in the sincerity of the Allies right up to the end.
